Marking-ticket.



P. J'. CONNOLLY.

MARKING TICKET.

APPLICATION HLED APR.11.1911.

g Patented Mar. 19, 1918.

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narran sfrarne narrante ersten PATRICK J. CONNOLLY, OF JERSEY CTY, NEW JERSEY, ASSGNR TO A. KIMBALL COMPANY, 0F NEV YORK, NJY., A CORPORATION OF NEVI YORK.

MARKING-TICKET.

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To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that'LPA'rnrck J. CoNNoLLY, a lcitizen of the United States, and resident of Jersey City, county of Hudson, State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Marking-Tickets, of which ythe following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like arts. P This invention relates to improvements in marking clips andthe object thereof is 'to provide a marking ticket or tag which may be applied easily to an article of merchandise and which will not mutilate the vmaterial to which it is attached.

The usual devices used to mark textile articles of merchandise are known as pin tickets and comprise a card to receive the notations of cost, sale price, style, etc. ylhese cards are provided with pins or staples adapted vto be thrust through the materialv towhich they are to be attached. y

T he present invention contemplates the provision of means for securing the card to the material without the necessity of having the aflixing device penetrate the material and comprises a card which may be of the usual type having a recess with means for forcing a bight of material to be'marked into said recess and clamping the same therein.

Av preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawings in which,

Figure 1 is a top plan view illustrating the marking clip applied to a piece of fabric,

Fig. 2 is a reverse view of the under side of the ticket and aifixing device, and,

F ig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view through the ticket and the atlixing device showing the latter clamping a bight of the material in the recess in the ticket.

rlhe preferred embodiment of the invention which is illustrated in the drawings comprises a ticket 1 of stiff material such as cardboard the face of which may be provided with notations like those ordinarily used upon pin tickets. A recess or slot 2 is formed in the card preferably parallel with and near one end, into which a bight of material to be marked may be forced. This recess may be a depression from the reverse side of the card toward the face thereof but Patented Mar. 19, 1918.

Application led April 11, 1917. Serial No. 161,127.

' preferably is a slot extending through the card.

lThe ai'iixing device for clamping the bight of material into-the slot is in the form of a stiff, pliable, non-resilient member preferably extending beyond the end of the card a ,sufl'icient distance to embrace a considerable portion of the material to which the card is to be affixed, the end of the aliixing member being provided Vwith a projection which may be utilized to force a bightJ of the material into the recess of the card and in coperation with the lwalls of the recess clamp the same therein.

The afifixing member may be an extension of the body of the 'card with or without a reinforcing ymember but preferably is in the form of a metallic clip attached to thecard adjacent its end and bent to form a loop,- yone limb of which extends beyond the end of the card and the other limb of which VVextends substantially parallel tothe reverse face of the card and is provided at its extremity with an oset portion so positioned that when the limbs of .the clip are squeezed togetler the vend will enter therecess in the cart.

As illustrated in the accompanying dra-wto form a locking member 10, and the extremity 11 of the locking member 10 preferably is doubled tightly upon itself so that the locking member presents a smooth curved surface 12 to engage the material to which the marking clip is applied.

ln using the device the reverse face of the card is placed against the material and a single or doubled fold of the material thrust beneath the limb 9 of the aihxing device. The limbs of the clip are then pressed together until the offset end 12 of the limb 9 enters the recess 2 in the card, carrying with it the bight of the material 13. The allixing device of course is of pliant non-resilient material which when once bent into place will remain there, so that the bight of material will be clampedwithin the Y drawn from the recess whereupon theV bight of material can be readily withdrawn from said recess.

By this construction the card may be affixed tothe most delicate fabrics without injuring the same as the end of the aixing device does not penetrate the fabric and has no sharp points or ragged edges which will damage the fibers of the material.

It is to be understood that the embodiment Y of Ythe invention disclosed herein is illustrative in character but is not restrictive and that the same may be embodied in other forms within the meaning and scope of the following claims.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is;

1. A marking ticket comprising a card having a recess and a sti' pliable member secured thereto having. a free end adapted to t force a bght of the material to be marked into said recess and to clampl the same therein. v

2. A marking ticket comprising a card stili" pliable'member lextending beyond rthe edge of said card'and revers/ely bent to present a loop, the free end of said member having an offset portion opposite saidV recess`Y adapted to vforce a bightrof the material Vto be marked into said recess and in coperation with the walls of said recess to clamp said material. therein.

4. A marking ticket comprising having a recess, a pliable metallic clamping member secured to said card and bent to 55 la cardA form a loop extending beyond the end of the card and a limbV extending along the reverse kface Vof the card at a distancetlierefrom and provided with an offset end positioned to enter said recess and in coperation with the walls ofthe recess to clamp a bight of the material therein.

5. A marking ticket'comprising a card having a recess, a pliable metallic clamping member secured to said card and bent to l, form av loop extending beyond ythe end of the card and having a'limb extending along the reverse face of the card at a distance.

therefrom and provided with an offset portion bent back upon itself toV present a smoothly. rounded endA positioned to 'enter said recess and in cooperation with the walls of said recess'to clampv a bight of the material therein. y Y

In testimony whereof, I have signed lmy name to this specification.

Y PATRICK J g CONN'OLLYf.

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